Cupcake ice creams

Cupcake ice creams

These pretty cupcake ice creams are perfect for a party centrepiece! Fill the ice cream cones with cupcakes that have been decorated with icing and sprinkles for a sweet treat that's sure to please.

serves: 12

ingredients

Cupcakes

1 x 340g cake mix

1 egg

3/4 cup milk

12 patty pans

Frosting

250g Butter

500g icing mix

2 tbsp water

Red, blue and yellow food colouring

Decoration

1 pkt Fairy Fives sprinkles

Lollies to half fill the cones

12 small ice cream cones

Cachous (edible silver balls)

method

Cupcakes:

Mix cake batter as directed on the packet, making sure you do beat it for the full 4 minutes as directed. Line a cupcake/muffin tin with patty pans. Spoon equal amounts into each pan. Baked at 160°C for 15 minutes. Leave in the tin for 10 minutes and then cool on a wire rack.

Frosting:

Beat softened butter until it is very pale and creamy (about 3 mins) and gradually add sifted icing sugar and vanilla. It will look too thick at times but as the sugar dissolves it becomes light and fluffy. With the mixer running, slowly add 2 tablespoons of room temperature water and the frosting will puff up a little. Divide the frosting between three bowls and add 2 drops of each colouring to the separate bowls and mix in.

Fill the 12 cones halfway with lollies (otherwise they will be top heavy when the cake is added). Peel the paper off the cupcakes. Take some frosting on a spatula and spread it around the sides and just under the base of a cupcake and then push it down into the cone so it is firmly wedged in.

Decoration:

Taking a generous dollop of frosting on the spatula and cover the entire cake. Swirl it around to resemble soft serve ice cream. To add the sprinkles, dip fingers into water and then sprinkles and gently press onto the frosting. Add silver cachous to the top of each cone.

notes

This is the perfect birthday cake to make when you are taking a cake to school for your child's classmates to enjoy too. The teacher will love you because she will simply be able to hand one cake out to each child. No mess, no fuss!

With the lollies tucked away inside the icecream cone, these cakes can do double-duty as lolly bags. Your party guests can take a piece of cake home with them, along with a lolly bag they can entirely eat!

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